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New Masters
Lawrence N. Powell
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Description for New Masters
Hardback. Powell addresses the role that the Northern Planters had on the post-Reconstruction system. He deals with a variety of issues, including race relations, the planters' motivations, work habits, capital investment patterns and their gradual disillusionment as problems mounted and profits declined. Series: North's Civil War S. Num Pages: 233 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 545.
New Masters: Northern Planters during the Civil War and Reconstruction, analyzes the North’s efforts to transform the South, both during and after the war, into a free labor economy and society. In this ground-breaking work, Lawrence N. Powell addresses the role that the twenty to fifty thousand "new masters," or northern planters, had on the post-reconstruction system. Covering evidence of over five hundred northern planters, Powell asserts that northern emigrants provided much of the capital that hard-pressed southern planters used to stave off bankruptcy; showing that these planters became both the catalyst that perpetuated the plantation system of servitude and ... Read more
New Masters: Northern Planters during the Civil War and Reconstruction, analyzes the North’s efforts to transform the South, both during and after the war, into a free labor economy and society. In this ground-breaking work, Lawrence N. Powell addresses the role that the twenty to fifty thousand "new masters," or northern planters, had on the post-reconstruction system. Covering evidence of over five hundred northern planters, Powell asserts that northern emigrants provided much of the capital that hard-pressed southern planters used to stave off bankruptcy; showing that these planters became both the catalyst that perpetuated the plantation system of servitude and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
Series
North's Civil War S.
Number of Pages
233
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823218936
SKU
V9780823218936
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About Lawrence N. Powell
Lawrence N. Powell is Professor of History at Tulane University in New Orleans. He is author of numerous books including Papers of Frederick Duglass and The Politics of Reconstruction.
Reviews for New Masters
"His sensitive narrative nicely balances general discussions with telling anecdotes, and his interpretations are uniformly intelligent and generally convincing." -New York Times Book Review "Not only an important addition to Reconstruction literature but also a demonstration as to how American history should ideally be written... Anyone interested in Southern history, whether professional historian or casual reader, will find Powell's book ... Read more